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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Yet like this bishop I believe that what Sir Andrew says will come to pass, for I know well that he is not as other men are." That night, by special leave, Hugh waited on the King, and with him Grey Dick, who was ever his shadow. "What is it now, Sir Hugh de Cressi?" asked Edward. "Sire, after the great battle, nigh upon a year ago, you told me that I must serve you till Calais fell.
"Fear not for Eve, son, for here she bides in sanctuary until the Frenchman is out of England, or perchance," he added grimly, "under English soil." "Ay, ay, we'll guard the maid," broke in Master de Cressi. "Come! to saddle ere you be trapped." So they descended to a back entrance, and through it into the courtyard, where the four armed men waited with six good horses, one of them Hugh's own.
In his tent sat Hugh de Cressi, who, after so much war and hardship, looked older than his years, perhaps because of a red scar across the forehead, which he had come by during the siege. With him was his father, Master de Cressi, who had sailed across from Dunwich with a cargo of provisions, whereof, if the truth were known, he had made no small profit.
A rush began, but at the top of the winding stairs another grating barred the way. Through this, however, could be seen Salvatore di Marco, Giordano Bolla, and the elder Cressi. The three Sicilians had fled to this last stronghold, slammed the steel door behind them, and now crouched in the shelter of a brick column.
Then the poor woman lifted up her arms and said: "I, Rebecca, daughter of Onias and wife of Nathan, call down on you, Hugh de Cressi, Richard Archer and David Day, and on your children forever, the blessings of Jehovah, because you have rescued the widow and her children from the fire and avenged the murder of the husband and the father.
They had but two lanterns between them, one of which Master de Cressi and his elder sons took with them to the nave of the church. Bearing the other, Sir Andrew departed into the vestry, leaving Hugh and Eve seated together in the darkness of the chancel stalls. Presently his light reappeared in the confessional, where he sat robed, and thither at his summons went first Hugh and then Eve.
They passed down the stairs, followed by Master de Cressi and his sons, into the entrance hall, where Grey Dick stood watching by the door. "Whither go they?" he asked of Sir Andrew, "for their road is mine." "To confession at God's altar," answered the old priest. "Do you come also, Richard?" "Oh!" he replied, "I hoped it had been to breakfast.
Peering through the stems of the undergrowth, set as it were in a little frame against the red and ominous sky, the eyes of Hugh de Cressi fell upon Sir Edmund Acour, a gallant, even a splendid-looking knight that was his first impression of him.
"My name is Hugh de Cressi, your Highness, and I am sent by the Reverend Father Sir Andrew Arnold, of Dunwich, and have followed his Grace from Westminster, whither I and my men rode first." Now, the Prince went to the King and spoke to him, and, returning presently, said: "My father says that he knows both the names you give well enough and holds them dear.
"This girl of mine is very heady, as I give warning you will find out when she is your wife. For years she has set her fancy upon Hugh de Cressi; yes, since they were boy and girl together, as I think, and while he lives I doubt she'll never change it." "While he lives then why should he continue to live, Sir John?" asked the Count indifferently. "Surely the world will not miss a chapman's son!"
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